I can see Sony proper wanting to maybe do something again just because of the market in Japan.

But I do believe that Andrew House isn't that keen on it anymore. I'm not sure about how Sony US feels about it.

I don't think Sony is going to pursue it again anytime soon.

Despite the reasons that Vita struggled, and I'm sure Sony is aware of those reasons beyond the mobile market being more prevalent, it still didn't sell well enough to really warrant pursuing it further unless they have something new and unique to offer. Hopefully if they ever do revisit it, they don't repeat the mistakes of the Vita. But given their current success in the home console market, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to split their focus onto more devices. That'd be a Vita2, PS(something), and the PSVR. That's a lot of support to manage.

Sony should stick to consoles. That's where they excel. They won't take resources away from their console business to support a handheld, which I understand. But if you can't fully support both, then don't do both. Just do the one that you can do best.

Sony's biggest selling factor with their handhelds for the past 13 years was console style gaming on the go.

With Switch pretty much taking this selling point as its main appeal, it'd be hard for Sony to make another handheld compelling enough to justify their continued manufacturing in the portable space for future generations.

Switch didn't take anything. Switch is console gaming on the go. PSP and Vita never achieved this. Vita could've but never did because the games were created with handheld in mind despite trying to be console on the go.

PSP came out during the sixth generation and gave us games like Liberty City Stories a portable GTA as big as GTA III plus a Vice City later too. PS Vita came out during the 7th gen and launched with an Uncharted game which albeit shorter was a good portable version of Uncharted on par with the original game. I'd count those as examples of console games on the go.

No, Vita and PSP were distinctly marketed as portables. They weren't marketed as hybrids and no long-term emphasis whatsoever was put into their inferior streaming capabilities, especially in regards to making sure literally everything played on it on-the-go with no other efforts required. Switch is a hybrid, marketed AS a hybrid, and plays ALL of its games, most of which being console titles, on the go natively as well as at home. No internet reliance required outside of online multiplayer.

PSP and Vita both showed the power of then contemporary consoles PS2 & PS3 packed into a handheld. Many games were released on consoles and that handheld with little reformulating which was happened with a console/handheld multiplat that's also on a Nintendo handheld.

Nobody can deny that Sony's biggest marketing push for both handhelds was the power of a console in the palms of your hands. This idea was later expanded upon by Nintendo with its hybrid system.

But PSP and Vita never offered console level gaming. Both offered watered down versions of the bigger games. The only ones I give them credit for doing well was Killzone and Uncharted. Mercenary was a solid title and Golden Abyss was fun. But look at titles like Call of Duty for example, not sure what the Vita got there but it was absolutely one of the worst things I have played.

Vita had parity with the PS3? Could have fooled me. Games were still watered down, my Call of Duty point still stands. Sure, some indie titles were the same across both, but it's not like the Vita was running Gran Turismo 5 or anything like that.

Yeah it did. Titles such as Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, Rayman Legends, Dragon's Crown, Sly 4, Ratchet & Clank: FFA, & Injustice ran on the handheld as it did on console. You're using Call of Duty like it's the rule rather than the exception, ignorantly overlooking the other AAA ultiplat titles that weren't reformulated on Vita. You're also overlooking the other multiplat titles released on PS2 & PSP.

@ Sick

Of course PSP came out before 360. DS & PSP both signaled the beginning of the 7th gen the same way 3DS & Vita signaled the beginning of the 8th gen.

I know you're not actually trying to say that DS, PSP and GBA are all part of the same 6th generation of platforms

I don't play my Vita because of Sony not supporting it with first party titles anymore. When I see folks posting they want a Vita 2 this article is the very reason why I say I highly doubt there will be a Vita 2 or any new handheld coming from Sony knowing they're not really interested anymore. I just wouldn't trust them if they decided to.I love their consoles,something I will continue to support!

Good, Sony has finally seen the light. The console space has always been the area that they excelled at. I would argue that the PS3 would've been a much more successful era had the PSP or the Vita had not been introduced, all those resouces could have gone to the PS3. Plus Sony lost money with both the PSP to rampant pirating and the Vita due to low hardware and software sales. Them not wanting to pursue another handheld makes sense.

PSP gave us tons of great games. Expensive hard ware, no games, inferior online had nothing to do with PSP, and Sony fixed its mistakes while the PSP still flourished. God Of War, MGS, and Kingdom Hearts came out on PSP in 2010, just around the time PS3 was flourishing as well. Face it, guys at Sony messed up Vita with its memory card, lack of interesting 1st party games, and overall support.

.. oh yeah .. we just cant re-release old games. Darn patents, copyrights and licensing .... just remove the tracks or samples that infringe the law. #DOIT

€dit: i mean, i can come up with a build based on an apu for $199 that can playback all ps games except for PS3/4. With marges, discounts ... Sony can easily push that down to $140. Add now a beefier gpu for the PS4 catalog at 540p if its necessary (better 720p) and voila the new PSP is born. For $250 Sony should be able to offer something like that, c´mon Bloodborne at 720p at 30fps on the go and ppl. will go ape-shit crazy ... that alone would sell few millions ... it can even be as big as the Switch.

Nvidia is selling their Switch 2.0 for $199, that one can playback native pc games at 1080p and is cheap as fuck. Sony ...hello =)

Yes. The mobile market will win the greatest handheld that mankind has created in this universe award with universally and critically acclaimed games such as Angry Birds, Clash of Clans, Candy Crush, Dungeoun Keeper, and Pokemon Go.

The "ugly fat smelly weighty" Switch should go to hell with "shitty" games like BOTW, Mario Oddessy, and Xenoblade 2.

Sony should just get out of gaming in general. They are a toxic company that bad mouths all their competition and dumbs down gaming in general. I am sorry if you are a die hard sony fan but their IP would have been better on PC, Xbox and Nintendo. They have no respect for their fans and are equally if not worse than MS when it comes to corporate evil. The fact so many people defend one of the most powerful media mega companies in the world has always amused me no end.

First thing is that PlayStation is not a Division of Sony rather It's a Whole owned Subsidiary so PlayStation entirely separate body but is still owned by the parent company which means that Sony doesn't have direct input into the subsidiary operations and management. Another thing is Didn't Xbox started trash talking, putting PlayStation down last generation. PS ip are doing way better than Xbox ip overall in this generation. Also remember how they disrespect their own community (which is why majority jump back to PlayStation) by saying that always online (also the quote "Deal with it" after people said that many doesn't have good internet), Kinect always connect, funding TV shows, sketchy buying game restrictions was the future which was anti consumer. Also don't forget that Nintendo locking content behind Amiibo or releasing small amount of supplies of NES/SNES on purpose. Overall each Company have their issue so don't come here saying that PlayStation is the evil and be ignorant of other rival wrong doing to the community too.